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The 11 PM
Club

The day job is marketing. After the kids are asleep, the house is quiet and the coffee is a bad idea, I run AI experiments: local agents, an app to pull people off the feed, a scary book with my daughter and an app that pays my kids for chores, as long as the AI signs off.

None of this is for sale. It's where I figure out what to sell next.

Tonight's builds

Agents, apps and late-night experiments

Night 01Designing

Dr. Doomscroll

A gamified app that helps people put the phone down and get their human qualities back. I'm building it as cheaply as I can, with AI, and writing down every step.

  • Android first, then iOS
  • Planned on free and low-cost tools
  • Designed to be fun, not preachy
Night 02Running

Hermes: Local & Private Cloud

An always-on agent framework on a home desktop that I control over Telegram from a tablet. The goal is a Jarvis the whole family can talk to.

  • Runs locally for privacy
  • Telegram gateway for remote control
  • Voice layer in progress
Night 03Testing

Paperclip + Hermes

An org chart where every employee is an agent. Paperclip runs the company structure, budgets and tickets, and Hermes agents do the work.

  • CEO → VP → specialist agents
  • Per-agent budgets and approvals
  • One business per 'company'
Night 04Daily driver

Claude Business Setup

I run a multi-business portfolio out of Claude: projects, skills, connectors, scheduled tasks and memory. It's the same setup I teach.

  • Skills for SEO, outreach and ops
  • Gmail, Calendar, Drive and Supabase connectors
  • Scheduled agents with approval gates
Family builds

Built with (and for) the five kids.

A family of seven means the harshest product reviews come from the kids, and these two builds are theirs.

FamilyWriting

Project: Scary City

A spooky book I'm writing with my daughter. She runs character development and catches every detail I get wrong, which is most of them.

  • Co-written with my daughter
  • AI for world-building notes, humans for the story
  • Code name only, title reveal later
FamilyPrototype

Smart Chore App for Kids

A chore app that lives in the chat apps kids already use. They snap a before and after photo, the AI checks the work and flags anything odd to a parent, and approved chores pay out to a kid debit card.

  • Before/after photo proof
  • AI review plus a parent sign-off
  • Rewards land on a kid debit card